A key objective of the ANA project is to demonstrate and validate our architectural principles with a real implementation. The second version of the ANA prototype is now publicly available for download (see below).

• February 15th 2008: Second Version of ANA software available for download.
• July 25th 2008: First version of ANA software available for download.

The current version includes the following components:

• ANA Core (called MINMEX), with key-value repository for Node Compartment.
• Ethernet and IP compartments: demonstrating how existing networking protocols fit into ANA.
• Compartment Finder: to find which compartment handles a given namespace.
• vlink: low-level virtual link system to easily interconnect ANA nodes in a flexible and dynamic way.
• ip2ana: adaptation layer to use legacy applications over ANA.
• Field-Based Routing compartment: a routing protocol developed by ETHZ, showing how ANA can support research activities.
• chat application: a simple example to show how to develop applications inside ANA.
• Gates plugin: to be able to run some components of a given ANA node on a remote host.
• A validation system to check that all components operate correctly.
• Some templates for developing your own components.

The ANA software is developed for Linux systems. Each component of ANA can compile as either:

• A standalone userspace application.
• A .so plugin that can be dynamically loaded by the MINMEX.
• A Linux kernel module.

To configure the compilation, check the README file in the top directory of the release.

• February 15th 2009: Release 2 of ANA software.

• February 15th 2009: Doxygen code documentation.

• February 15th 2009: PDF documentation (code howto).

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